Britain, Beautiful, Interesting and Sometimes Strange

Octagonal Lake from Palladian Bridge.

Palladian Bridge looking across the Octagonal Lake.

Stowe House across the Octagonal Lake.

Untitled image in Peterborough and its Cathedral. (30359)

Untitled image in Peterborough and its Cathedral. (30368)

Untitled image in Peterborough and its Cathedral. (30379)

The stained glass windows in the Nave, by Lawrence Lee, Keith New and Geoffrey Clarke, face away from the congregation.

Clock Tower of Coventry Council House, High Street, Coventry, Warwickshire Tudor-style Grade II-listed building opened 1920

A tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

The Old Deanery.Part of Hereford Cathedral School. A 19th century building with earlier elements.

Untitled image in Hereford and its Cathedral. (30073)

Stanbury Chantry c1375 with Perpendicular fan vaulting.

A dull June day at Sheffield Park, Sussex and its beauty is still there for all to see, 25th June 2021.

Anwoth Old Church. A tomb of the Gordon family is separately designated a scheduled monument.

Mottisfont Abbey Walled Gardens during a break in the very wet June weather, 20th June 2021.

The estate was owned by the Bishops of Lichfield until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, upon which it passed through several hands before being purchased in 1624 by William Anson, a local lawyer and ancestor of the Earls of Lichfield. The estate remained in the Anson family for three centuries. Following the death of the 4th Earl of Lichfield in 1960, the estate was allocated to the National Trust in lieu of death duties, and then immediately leased to Staffordshire County Council. Management of the estate was returned to the National Trust in 2016.

Untitled image in Shrugborough Hall (29254)

Untitled image in Shrugborough Hall (29248)

External view 30th July 2017.The castle's origins date back to the 11th Century and has remained within the Berkeley family since they reconstructed it in the 12th century, except for a period of royal ownership by the Tudors. It is traditionally believed to have been the scene of the murder of King Edward II in 1327.

St.Mary's Church 30th July 2017.

View from Castle 30th July 2017.

Untitled image in Brockham Bonfire, 3rd November 2012. (28906)

Untitled image in Brockham Bonfire, 3rd November 2012. (28895)

Untitled image in Brockham Bonfire, 3rd November 2012. (28903)

Colour on the Kennet and Avon Canal between Crofton and Great Bedwyn, 12th July 2020.

View from Monsal Head, Peak District, 1st August 2019.

Harbourside, 25th September 2020. The Wemouth Tramway, (on the left) connected to the main railway network for once working boat trains to the then Channel Island ferry terminal.

Mottisfont,8th June 2019.

Great Chalfield Manor 14th July 2019.

St.Michaels Church,Aldbourne,Wiltshire.31st August 2016.We know that a stone church existed before 1150. That church had to be rebuilt following a fire around 1220, at which time it seems to have been dedicated to St Mary Magdalene. In 1460 Richard Goddard financed a west tower, replacing an earlier central tower. Goddard also had the roof raised and a clerestory inserted, and added the porch and chantry chapels. By the following century a small school was established in a chamber over the south porch.The nave and chancel make up the earliest part of the building, both erected in the 13th century when the earlier Norman church appears to have been almost completely rebuilt.